Not me.
95% of my collection is either high bit-rate mp3 or lossless. I
usually don't care about packaging, it's the audio I'm after. The
other 5% is maybe 2-3 compact disks /month; to be ripped to lossless.
And yes, I'm a major bleep / boomkat / e-music customer... I have a
mirror image of my collection on a spare HDD if my main HDD fails,
(which I make regular backups on) -- as a contingency plan. There's no
problem here with not having a physical recording on my shelf. All
content on any CD (hell, even vinyl) is data anyway. People are
alienated just due to the fact they need something to collect. What
good is a virtual bottle cap collection? I dunno, but do bottle caps
store data?
And as n3wjack briefly mentioned, look at Radiohead's new (probable)
million(s) or so they got out of self-releasing digitally. Basic
supply & demand here folks. If huge music corporations can't keep up
with the demand for DRM-less, & lossless digital purchases -- I guess
they deserve a loss in profits. Just another way to cut out the
exploitive middle men known as the recording industry. Digital is the
future of music; good for me -- good for the artists / labels (if
they're smart enough)...
Also, Portable MP3 > Portable CD.
Search Slashdot for the headline:
Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album
On 10/24/07, rednetic <mark@rednetic.com> wrote:
quoted 25 lines Hi
>
> Hi
> Who still buys CDs? We are a small label that still sell CDs, but we are
> also starting up paid for mp3 downloads. I have been thinking for a while
> that the future will be limited vinyl and digital downloads for labels such
> as us and CDs will disappear all together.
>
> We currently give away free mp3s as a netlabel, as i have always had the
> opinion that the quality isnt as good. I would be interested in peoples
> thoughts.
>
> mark
> rednetic recordings
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